Finansowanie Open Access
Funding Open Access

Summary/Abstract: Funding Open Access is an extremely important question, however, hardly mentioned in Polish literature. The Open Access model, assumed to assure free access to resources, generates system, organizational, and administrative costs, which we shall be aware of. The author discusses current methods open Access publications’ funding, like the author, institutional, double, shared, and hybrid models, as well as governmental funding, grants, and payable membership in an OA publishing house. Particular attention is put on an author's model of financing OA publications, assuming that the costs of publishing texts arepaid by their authors. The levels of authorship fees in most of commercial OA and hybrid journals’ publishers are described.

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